hovel
- n. 简陋小屋，茅舍，栅舍；<贬>破旧肮脏的住处
- vt. （罕用）使……住在茅屋；把……拴入棚舍
[ 复数 hovels 第三人称单数 hovels 现在分词 hovelling或hoveling 过去式 hovelled或hoveled 过去分词 hovelled或hoveled ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
hovel /ˈhʌvəl/ TEM8
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N-COUNT A hovel is a small hut, especially one which is dirty or needs a lot of repair. (尤指破败不堪的)小屋
例：They lived in a squalid hovel for the next five years.
接下来的五年中，他们住在一间肮脏不堪的小破屋里。
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N-COUNT You can describe a house, room, or apartment as a hovel to express your disapproval or dislike of it because it is dirty, untidy, and in poor condition. 肮脏简陋的住处 [表不满]
例：The room I was given was a hovel.
分给我的房间又脏又小。
双语例句权威例句
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More ruins lay beyond it—an old well, and some circles in the grass that marked the sites where hovels had once stood.
而在石墙前面，更多的废墟映入眼帘——一口古老的井，还有一圈圈小茅屋压出的草印，虽然它们已不复存在。
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And these are not derelict hovels in crime-ridden communities: these homes are often in move-in condition and located in nice neighborhoods.
而且这些地区并非那种犯罪肆虐的社区：这些待售房屋都是搬进来就可以住的条件很好的居民区。
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The persons who, like ourselves, never cross the Place DE greve without casting a glance of pity and sympathy on that poor turret strangled between two hovels of the time of Louis XV.
从格雷沃广场走过的人们，和我们自己一样，都不会不朝这座塔楼投去怜悯和同情的眼光，它夹在两座路易十五时期的破屋中间。
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